Vera Mironova

Criminals, Nazis, and Islamists provides an authoritative overview of prisoner organizations in Russia from Soviet times to the present. It shows how the Vory criminal organization, the earliest prison gang, came to dominate Russian prisons over the course of the twentieth century and establish its own unique form of internal prison governance. Meer

This book sheds light on the history of the war in Chechnya in the North Caucasus and the activities of Chechen jihadists of the region. Drawing from interviews with members of terrorist groups, the book provides a nuanced understanding of this international conflict and its evolution since the early 2000s. Meer